After hunting around the hard drive, I found the MPEG-2 file in the Movies folder at the top level of my home directory

I may be wrong, but I figure the computer is seeing the VHS player as a sort of external hard drive

I have over 30 hours of video and had to purchase a 1TB external hard drive in order to store it

but there isn't and the recording does not save anywhere on your hard drive

The benefit of doing this is that you won't totally fill your hard drive with garbage if you forget to come back and stop recording after an extended period of time

I am moving VHS tapes to digital files on my hard drive (not to DVD)

You try to drag the movie on your hard drive to I movie, and you will see

So, as with most external hard-drives, you know that you have to "eject" them before unplugging

The software Easy VHS to DVD Capture that comes with the product, convert automatically the files to be read for iMovie, but this operation make a duplicate of every video with different format occupying a lot of space in the hard drive.

Is there not enough space on the disk or hard drive, and if so does it warn you?

While the instructions do walk you through (sort of) the procedure for capturing a VHS video on you hard drive

(Let it be known, for I am proud to say it: I do not use, nor do I recommend iMovie, iDVD, or any software which starts with a lower-case "i" for that matter.)

Source used was home movies on VHC-C. Quality was the same using 3 different devices and multiple cables ( 2 VCR players and original camera used to take videos).I had originally tried a V-Top unit by Fly Kan and while their captured video and sound was excellent the device failed after only about 10 minutes